Chapter 325: The youngest MVP
"You don't really have to wait until the next round to give out the prize, right?" After the Knicks eliminated the Pacers, Wu Huang was not concerned about the team's promotion, because he never doubted this, even if the fourth game was really overturned, it would be a big deal to return to the home court and play one more game. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The Pacers' strength is quite far from them, and even without Smalls, they have been overcome.
Wu Huang is now struggling with why the news of the MVP has dragged on so much, there should be no accidents, right? It's not cranky, he's too young, it's not an advantage, will the league deliberately drag him for a year for this reason? There has never been an example in the history of the NBA to win the MVP as a rookie, of course, the Finals MVP is an exception, and those media that don't have a good relationship with him are likely not to vote for him for this reason.
Some media, such as Yahoo Sports, who have always been at odds with him, think that they are not in a hurry to award the MVP trophy to Wu Huang, even if he only gets this trophy next season, he can still break the record of being the youngest at that time, so let's give this award to others this year.
Of course, this is, who is more qualified to win this award than Wu Huang this year? The answer, of course, is "no"!
The Knicks returned to New York on the 24th, and on the evening of the same day, the NBA official website officially announced the most important award in the regular season this season and the most worrying award for Wu Huang fans - the regular season MVP.
In fact, there is really not much suspense about this award, Wu Huang beat Orlando Magic's Howard and Miami Heat's James and other stars to win this award. He also became the youngest MVP winner in NBA history.
The 21-year-old has put on a monster-like performance this season, surpassing the legendary Wes Unseld, who won the MVP award at the age of 23, to become the youngest player in history to win the award.
In the selection of 121 basketball reporters and commentators from North America, Wu Huang received a total of 115 first-choice votes and received a total of 1,202 points, winning this important award by an overwhelming margin. The next 2-5 players are Howard of the Magic, James of the Heat, Kobe Bryant of the Lakers and Durant of the Thunder.
Wu Huang is also the first point guard to win the award since Steve Nash won the MVP in '06, and he has led the Knicks to an impressive 67-15 record this season, helping the Knicks become the 10th team in history.
The sophomore averaged 31.5 points, 6.8 rebounds, 10.1 assists, 3.2 steals and 1.0 blocks per game this season, and he became only the third backcourt player in NBA history to average 30 points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds per game in a season.
In addition, Wu Huang has scored a total of 2,359 points this season, with 759 assists, 512 rebounds and 243 steals, making him the third player in history to complete "2300+700+500" in points, assists and rebounds in a single season, which only Big O and Archibald have been able to do before.
"I'm in for a treat tonight, and the Gold Club is up." The good news came very quickly, Wu Huang was overjoyed when he learned that he had won the MVP, and immediately stopped caring about the "curfew", and directly pulled a group of teammates to the most famous gold cave in New York, where it is said that the highest quality prostitutes in the United States gathered.
Although Emperor Wu doesn't go to these places often, such high-end nightclubs, clubs, and villas in New York will send him the highest level membership card, otherwise the prostitutes and women will go on strike. This time, he brought a whole team of people to sweep, nominally to celebrate after he got the MVP, but in fact, he used the name of celebration to let the team relax, after all, his curfew made many teammates quite dissatisfied, and this dissatisfaction will accumulate more and more over time.
At this time, Emperor Wu needed to find an opportunity to release their resentment and emotions, and not let these negative factors evolve into real contradictions. To put it simply, this is a slap in the face to a sweet date. As for the whole team running to recruit prostitutes, will it affect the journey of the playoffs? Of course not, they will get at least a week's rest after sweeping the Pacers, and now that a few days of corruption are in their right to relax, they can't keep pressing them, and it won't be good if they get too pressed and start a mutiny.
Brandon is having dinner with New York Times basketball columnist Da Sabi, who is a big fan of Wu Huang, but you can't let your family work for nothing. So after receiving the benefits, the veteran sports reporter + columnist worked harder......
At the same time, the journey of the first round of the playoffs has been completed more than halfway, and the Knicks are not the only team in the league that has swept their opponents, but the Mavericks, Thunder, and Heat have also completed a fatal blow to their opponents!
After the first four games of the first round, the league has already had four unlucky players to clean sheets, and the crushing advantage of these giant teams makes the first round of the playoffs less suspenseful, and this new method of building teams makes the gap between strength and weakness in the league obvious, and some of the big teams can still rely on the play of stars to stabilize their opponents even if they are not in full form.
Of course, although the unbalanced distribution of forces at this stage has reduced the excitement of the first round of the playoffs, after the elimination of the first round, those who remain will be the real strong teams, and the next strong dialogue will make the following games more and more exciting.
Western Conference First Round Score - Spurs (1) vs (3) Grizzlies; Mavericks (4) vs (0) Rockets; Lakers (2) vs (2) Hornets; Thunder (3) vs (1) Nuggets.
Eastern Conference First Round Score - Heat (4) vs (0) Bucks; Magic (2) vs (2) Bulls; Knicks (4) vs (0) Pacers; Celtics (2) vs (2) Hawks.
When the Knicks returned to New York, in addition to taking advantage of the rest to relax, watching the series between the Magic and Bulls is their focus right now, and the two teams are 2-2 in the first four games, which means they will have to play at least six games to separate the winners.
At first, the Knicks wanted the Magic to advance, but if the Bulls won in the end, the Knicks hoped that they had better be able to play quickly, which would slow down the Bulls' run-in.
But the current situation is not in favor of the Knicks, and a quick victory is no longer possible, and the Knicks instead hope that the two teams will simply play Game 7, preferably inseparably and exhausted...... In the end, both lost and reimbursed two or three main players each, which was the result that best met the Knicks' psychological expectations.
Now the battle between these two teams on Tianwang Mountain has become very important, and it is basically a contest where whoever wins will advance.
The Magic are at home in Game 5, and they must snatch a crucial game that could make the difference between life and death in the series.
However, Howard fell into a foul crisis at home today, playing only 28 minutes in the whole game, during which he almost had a big fight with Noah, and the final six fouls were ejected, and the Magic also collapsed due to the loss of the interior pillar.
This result sounds a little unbelievable, but the reason for the occurrence may explain that Noah's trash talk and small actions play a big role in it, but what kind of trash talk can make Howard lose control?
This question, another inside player of the Magic team, Brandon Buss, revealed the inside story after the game, and it is said that during the game, Bulls center Noah repeatedly read two names - Yao Ming and Wu Huang. Of course, just reading the name is not enough, Noah obviously did his homework before the game, he seems to have found out the game of these two people beating Howard, and then memorized it, and when he arrived at the game, he repeatedly repeated the old story in Howard's ear with the speed of a machine gun, and quoted a lot of negative reports and insults from the media and fans to interfere and hit Howard.
Bass also said he had even heard Noah describe "Yao Ming as Howard's dad," which was why the two almost got into a fight in the second half.
Howard was indignant, and he couldn't help but say after the game: "Truth be told, Noah is a dirty player and his winning methods are disgusting!" ”
But Rose expressed disdain for this attack: "Everyone in the league knows that Joaquin is a good boy!" Noah also defended himself: "I'm no dirtier than any player. That's part of the game, I never hurt anybody, everything I do is to win. ”
In fact, if the Magic are out, it will not be an accident, but the Spurs on the other side are different, they are the first in the West, but now they are cornered by the Grizzlies in eighth place with a score of 3:1.
The media believes that too much psychological baggage is a major reason for the Spurs' successive defeats, of course, the most important thing is that the overall grade of the players is too large, and the Spurs are still operating on the axis of GDP, but the three old guys seem to be a little unable to turn.
"We've had a bit of a win-and-lose," Ginobili said after losing Game 4, "and we've had a fantastic season, we were all number one in the league before 65 games, playing unbelievable. The Grizzlies, on the other hand, have nothing to lose and make history with every victory. ”
In the history of the NBA, there have been three "Black Eight Miracles" before, and after the best-of-seven system in the first round, only the Mavericks were "hacked" by the Warriors in 2007. The Spurs can't afford to lose again, they want to continue this series, they want to continue the entire Spurs dynasty, but they are already 3:1 ahead, and a new Black Eight miracle is about to be born.
The New York Times reported on the king becoming the youngest MVP when two strong teams were cornered.
Back in April 2010, Hugo held his Rookie of the Year trophy and said, "Why can't I be MVP next season?" ”
At that time, some reporters thought that it was impossible for him to get the MVP in a short period of time, and it was difficult to say whether he could even get it in the future, because not every player who won the best rookie could play, and those who won the best rookie and then got worse and worse, and finally disappeared are not nothing, on the contrary, there are many players.
But Hugo didn't think he was going to be a shooting star, and he asked rhetorically, "Why not?" Why can't I? Can't I be the best player in the league? I don't think there's anything wrong with that. ”
He did what he said. On April 24, 2011, Hugo was officially crowned the league's MVP - more importantly, this season, he averaged 31.5 points, 6.8 rebounds, 10.1 assists and 3.2 steals per game, and led the Knicks to the regular season championship, becoming the youngest MVP in history, he is only 21 years old.
This is only the second year of his career, and Hugo has already reached the harvest time. Looking back at his two-year career, it was a short but fruitful one: in the first All-Star Weekend of his rookie season, he won the Three-Point Contest, the Skills Challenge, and the MVP of the Rookie Game, and shared the final All-Star AMVP trophy with James; He started 79 games in his rookie season, averaging 24.0 points, 6.1 rebounds, 8.7 assists and 2.6 steals per game, he won the Rookie of the Year and also entered the defensive second team, which is also the youngest defensive second team in history, and in the playoffs, he averaged 27.3 points, 6.6 rebounds, 8.7 assists and 3.1 steals per game in his rookie season and brought the Knicks to the Eastern Conference finals.
The following year, his strong performance continued to rise steadily, and he was selected to the All-Star Game again and won the three-point contest again, but this time he also broke the Magic's assist record and won the AMVP trophy exclusively; His average points per game rose to 31.5 points and more than 10 assists, and he became the third player in NBA history to average 30+10 per game.
Although this is only Hugo's second year, why can't he get the MVP?
When Wu Huang saw this, he didn't think that such a report was too exaggerated, after all, these were all the results he had gotten. But the next report of the New York Times made him completely stunned, and he found that the next things did not match the reality of him, and in the end he was a little disgusted to see himself.
Da Sabi was the one who took the benefits, adding to the story that I remember Hugo saying "I thought I had worked very hard" when Hugo won the Week for the first time. I feel like I've invested too much in the game, sacrificing a lot of time to have fun and even having a girlfriend. But I knew that if I could persevere, I would pay off in the end. And I told him, "Now that you have a goal, let's do your best to chase your dream!" ”
Many people don't know how many nights has Hugo, who is always the hardest trainer, sweating like rain to improve himself? A quote from a Knicks ball staff member may help us understand Hugo's efforts, "He was the first to come to every practice, and when everyone was gone, Hugo practiced alone in the arena. He uses the chairs as opponents, goes around them and shoots, from all angles. After he heard that Wade practiced his jump shot like this, he practiced it himself. ”
The Knicks' mental trainer reminisced about the summer, saying, "Every summer, Hugo would go back to his college for offseason workouts, where he would practice six days a week and shoot 1,000 three-pointers a day. And every Sunday, Hugo doubles his three-point shots, which is why he doesn't miss shots on the court. ”
Hugo has always believed that he has no capital to enjoy and relax, and his talent is not higher than others, so he has been doing his best to fight tirelessly for his dreams and for his MVP.
When Emperor Wu saw this, he was completely stupid, and he sacrificed his time to play and ran to train? He spent all his time playing with girls training? Isn't this talking nonsense with your eyes open? And when did he ever have a mental trainer? Did he say all that? Did he work that hard?
The report written by Da Sabi shocked Emperor Wu, and even he didn't know that he was so great?
The report concludes with the words: Looking back on the past little things this season, Hugo has reason to be proud. At the beginning of the season, he said he wanted to be an MVP, and that wasn't megalomania. We clearly understand how much effort he put in in the offseason.
Some people say that Hugo is 5 years younger than Jordan when he got his first MVP, which is amazing. But hugo he will definitely say: "I haven't reached his heights yet, I'm still far away." It's good to be able to get close to him. We're just trying to win the next game. ”
But humility alone can't make an MVP.
How did the youngest new MVP come about?
In fact, before becoming an MVP, Hugo had already learned how to be a leader.
His 68 points from the Christmas game put him in the top ranks, and he was good enough to be in the Hall of Fame in terms of individual performances. At the end of the season, when the Knicks' interior core Smalls was absent, and when they were likely to be unable to continue to challenge for 67 wins, Hugo stepped up again, and he handed in 40+ answers in 3 of the four games, so the Knicks still advanced at high speed, winning the league regular season championship and the team's historic 67 wins.
Hugo, the leader of the Knicks, has a lot of credit for everything he has today, and he is the true cornerstone of New York's rise.
'He's the MVP, but he's also the most improved player and I think he deserves two awards, but a lot of people overlook the speed of his improvement. Iguodala has always had a high opinion of Hugo, "He's toughened up his defense in the game, he's got rebounds, he's got steals, he's got more inside shots, he's got more fouls, he's started to get more free throws, he's improved four or five in two seasons, whereas coaches usually only ask for one a year." ”
In a word, he's more like a leader, the kind of real leader.
But there are some things that are ingrained in Hugo that have not changed - for example, the desperate desire to win, the strong desire to control the game. The more crucial the game and the more dangerous the situation, the more he was motivated to control the game.
Charles Barkley said he wasn't surprised that Hugo won the MVP, saying, "I think if the guys who voted don't support Hugo winning the MVP, they don't really understand the sport. If even these professional media people and commentators don't know about the sport, the NBA can be disbanded. It's like if you let him go from this seemingly strong team, then I dare say the Knicks won't make the playoffs next year because they're a team like that. Everyone knows that the Knicks look strong every year, but they just can't make the playoffs, and it wasn't until Hugo came here that he refreshed the team, and he's the best playmaker in the NBA. ”
Jordan's assessment was: "When he first entered the league, everybody said he had great touch, but he couldn't break to the basket, he couldn't adapt to high-intensity matchups, and the highest ceiling was the yellow Nash. But now Hugo has mastered the art of breaking, his stop-and-go changes, his footwork is no one else's, he has excellent defensive reading and a sense of space on the court, and his shooting is the best of any active player. I think time will tell, this kid is working very hard and I think he has the potential to win more than six championships. ”
Regardless of the future, Hugo has been able to hold his head high in the history of the NBA - because he is the youngest MVP in the league! (To be continued.) )